that some. of our time. it was like gold if you'll just go did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy correct help us. going. to make you know i'm sorry and on this show we reveal the picture of what's actually going on we go beyond identifying the truck rational debate real discussion critical issues facing america i'm ready to join the movement and welcome the. hello i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. one person should shoulder

much of the blame for the eliot shooting and that person is a multimillionaire wayne la pierre to tell you why in just a moment and surprise surprise insurance companies are using the confusion over obamacare tarawera brought their customers so why isn't the corporate media calling them out and there's a reason the republican party is so opposed to any infrastructure spending their super rich donors have given up on america more on that tonight steely take. wayne la pierre as new blood on his hands friday morning twenty three year old halls the latest beneficiary of the n.r.a. has just say no policy toward common sense gun laws walked into terminal three at l.a.x. international airport and opened fire is in a ar fifteen assault rifle the same. gun used by newtown killer adam lanza c.n.c.

is shot and killed a t.s.a. agent before he was taken down by airport police another day another mass shooting this is apparently how we live in this country right now according to estimates based on media reports more than ten thousand americans have been killed by guns since last december sandy hook massacre that's more than the total number of americans who died in the entire iraq war remember that ten thousand statistic is only based on deaths reported on by the media actual number of gun deaths since newtown is likely a lot higher is the recent data on firearm deaths provided by the centers for disease control and prevention slate estimates it is likely that as of today remember a fourth roughly twenty nine thousand three hundred seventy six people have died from guns in the u.s. since the newtown shootings nearly half the number of americans killed during the vietnam war just since last december this is a horrific national tragedy at twenty nine thousand three hundred seventy six

number includes people like shines sean. we just last week killed himself with a gun he found in his colorado home he was three years old thanks to the committed people behind the at gun deaths twitter group and the editors of the gun fail blog over the daily koz we now have a rough idea of the toll gun violence is taking on american society but we could have an even better picture and a better national conversation about guns if the n.r.a. hadn't spent the past thirty some odd years stripping the federal government of any real power to measure and report on firearms deaths the roots of american gun violence are complicated when it comes down to it it's all the battle of the n.r.a. this fall that we can't go one month without some crazy person shooting up a school an office building or an airport that's because the n.r.a. has made it impossible to pass any meaningful gun control laws let alone put together and put together a comprehensive analysis. of gun violence let's face it our elected representatives

are terrified of multi-millionaire n.r.a. chief wayne la pierre and his billionaire cronies or elected representatives will do anything they can to protect themselves from a gun nut primary challenger and keep the n.r.a. campaign checks world and what happened in april ninety percent of americans supported a bill that would have close the gun show loophole republicans in red state democrats killed it in the senate because they thought it was more important to keep their a plus rating from the n.r.a. and you keep death machines away from criminals and the mentally ill that is insane it's utterly and absolutely insane that a developed nation like the native united states would give crazies civilians access to weapons of war but thanks to the n.r.a. it's actually easier to buy an assault weapon than it is to vote in many states other countries with gun culture is just as ingrained as ours understand how stupid that is that's why after

a brutal brutal massacre in one thousand nine hundred six australia said enough and banned semiautomatic and automatic weapons all together the ban was successful australia had thirteen gun massacres in the eighteen years before the one thousand nine hundred six gun reforms but has not suffered any mass shootings since that's right australia banned the most dangerous kinds of guns in the country is safer now australia also by the way has universal background checks for all gun purchases there's only one thing stopping us from doing what australia did and that one thing is the multibillion dollar gun industry and it's well paid front group the n.r.a. it's time we stop the euphemisms and call out the n.r.a. for what it really is a bunch of sociopaths who are responsible every year for the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent american children and adults all in the name of making a buck or more on this i'm joined now by vince colony a senior online editor of the billy color that's welcome back thank you very much i'm good. have you with us do you find this is screwed up as i do ninety percent of

americans want to close the gun show loophole sixty percent want to ban on assault weapons weapons of war i'm a i'm a sports shooter nobody that i know uses a ar fifteen is competitively right of shooting maybe they've started the last year but you know i've been shooting for you i've never heard this nobody uses them for hunting no hundred is right mind would be caught out before so they are fifteen nobody carries one on their in their purse or in their briefcase for self defense these are weapons of war why are we selling them well i think one i want to go back to you know i think that the n.r.a. is just an easy scapegoat for you because i think you see it as like a political i mean you disagree with their politics therefore you can accuse them of murder and i think in every single case we've seen one of these shootings is clearly the the the actions of a crazy person or a you know or whatever it takes that leaves these people to what they do not the n.r.a. the n.r.a. doesn't commit these acts of violence the setting the same day that adam lanza shot

those what thirty some odd kids in new tests terrified there was a fellow in china who walked into a classroom intent on killing the children there and he with a knife and he managed to slash twenty kids and none of them die. that's it if adam lanza had not had a weapon of war at the very best you know if you had a normal gone with a nine shot clip or a seven shot clip or a revolver with five five bullets in the chamber sure he might have killed a couple of people i understand what you're hoping for but we know is that we have we have seen the assault weapons ban in effect from one thousand nine hundred four to two thousand and four and in that time frame you did see to your point that assault weapons that's a did actually decline but at the same time you saw an increase in handgun deaths people that were dying at the hands of a handgun and the case of the of the guy who went into l.a.x. last weekend last friday if he didn't have access some assault weapon and chose to instead go in with a handgun he would have had a much more. really concealed weapon on his person and i don't think that putting

someone in a position where they have to revert to any more easily concealed weapon to go into a situation like this is necessarily the right tact gun deaths went up during the assault weapons ban and you had some assault weapons about. oriented deaths i will give you that there are a whole lot of variables besides just the number of guns in fact what we've seen and what you can see of countries all around the world is as inequality goes up mental illness goes up it homicide rates go up suicide rates go granted but the experience of australia is pretty clear the experience of a lot of countries is that you know guns are weapons of opportunity for suicides when you take them away when they're not available or when they're at their work or when only people who can demonstrate a need for them have the suicide rates go down not just gun suicide but overall suicide rates go down and that that when you have weapons of war available to people they use them but we know we know that illegality doesn't preclude these weapons from being used we know that and that i just look just look at what

happened in the las shooting this guy knew what he was getting into here in a suicide this was suicidal i mean he gets he gets shot in the head he survived and now he faces the death penalty i mean what is going to stop a crazy person from acting this way no amount of not having to turn excess to him to a weapon of war so at the end of the day i think what you have is a guy who was able to get away with a shooting like this he didn't obviously get past the checkpoint but he got to we have point we have lost more people since newtown than we lost in the first half of the vietnam. this is the the n.r.a. with the tea heart amendment actually makes it a crime it's a crime for a federal employee to keep track of how many people are killed by guns a federal employee can go to prison for simply writing down the number of people who've been killed by guns because of legislation sponsored by the n.r.a. this is a public health crisis and it's illegal for us to compile the statistics the n.r.a. is composed of the earth like hundreds of thousands millions of america. who

support then the n.r.a. is efforts not a fair representation of the their representative of the individual member n.r.a. is funded by a handful of large weapons manufacturers but they can't make their lenses but they can't in their membership many americans who will actually vote with they'll go to the go to the polls on election day and vote their conscience vote the way the n.r.a. instructs them so in this regards the n.r.a. a will the n.r.a. says to the are right for seventy percent of n.r.a. members want the gun show loophole close more than half of it i'm not going to want to i must always have the feeling i think the polling is what it is i also think that when it comes to mental health which is probably the number one target of trying to end these mass shootings there is not a very brave conversation about taking on mental health in this country because of what it would imply correct i mean look at me look at you as you're so here's a little let me just point and i know you'll probably agree with that which is that many of our men and women in the open in uniform are coming back with various degrees of p.t.s.d. which of course is a mental health illness and it is meant i believe in the service and and the

reaction to a ban on weapons anybody who has any degree of mental illness the effect would be that half of the guys that are coming back from iraq and afghanistan would be banned from having these weapons and there is not a lot of bravery to go in that direction as much as the politicians and lip service to address that might be a good thing because one of the one of the principle of cause of p.t.s.d. . and suicide you know guns make suicide so much easier but i guess the bright line in all of this is that under obamacare now mental health coverage is mandated right . i'm so for everybody hi roger obamacare is going very well in your mind try. to do it through and see if they see you ok coming up a shocking new report suggests that insurance companies could be intentionally yes intentionally misleading people call. it a side up for war expensive plans under obamacare have more on that report and what it means for the future of health care reform right after the break.

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controversy about the rollout of healthcare reform shows no sign of stopping anytime soon over the past week or so the focus has shifted from the glitchy health care dot gov website to the small group of americans who will see changes to their health insurance plans under obamacare although eighty percent of the population will see no changes what so ever to their health plans under obamacare a small sliver of our population around three percent a tiny red slice in this pipe chart already the best estimates will come out as losers it will lose their current coverage and have to buy more expensive plans this of course is embarrassing for president obama while pushing for congress to pass health care reform back in two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten he promised that americans who are already had insurance would get to keep their plan under the new law this is obviously not the case and the media has jumped all over this to try to paint the president as a liar but it turns out there's a lot more to the story than meets the eye for new talking points memo insurance companies have sent misleading letters to consumers trying to lock them into the

company's own sometimes more expensive health insurance plans rather than let them shop for insurance and tax credits on the obamacare marketplaces which could lead to people spending thousands more for insurance than the law intended in other words instead of helping people who are going to lose their plans under obamacare insurance companies are trying to trick them into buying more expensive plans are one of the story as well as the latest on obamacare i'm joined now by karen davenport director of health policy with the with the national women's law center karen welcome back to ask great b. and great to see you again. this report is really disturbing that these insurance companies. just to take purely hypothetical numbers but i think they're kind of representative somebody's got a policy right now for two hundred dollars that's so substandard it's like a it's like the health insurance equivalent of a. brought along and so it has to go away so there's surance company says well we've got a six hundred dollars policy that fits your needs it don't do anything will

automatically roll you over to it on january first and starts a new bills for six hundred dollars you're doubling your credit card automatically or over there they're collecting your money and people you know the implicit. message of the letter is this is your only option but in fact they point to obamacare and say obamacare is mandating this one in favor of these very often these exact same companies are offering a four hundred dollars plan on the exchange that goes everything there is six hundred dollars plan but if the person can get a subsidy. how can they get away with this what's what's going on here well i think they're able to use the confusion certainly exists right now around in rome and in obamacare to their advantage and some of them it looks like have been doing you know even before the marketplace opened on october first were really trying to push people into these mark spencer policies and lock them in you know for another year . i think also you know because there's been so much attention to the problems with

the website and other dynamics you know as you mentioned around there if you controversy if you like your plan you can keep it kind of problems. that this is a story that just hasn't gotten much reporting that it shouldn't really surprise us i mean it's not as if insurance plans are doing this by accident or that they haven't caused a lot of problems in the individual market fixing with a whole one of the really big goals of the health care law in the first place but it it's really misleading what they're doing to these people and you know obviously fragile and terribly expensive to them to another one of the of the means that has come out of this recently and i have to betsy mccaughey of my radio show last week about this is obamacare is taking seven hundred billion dollars. not occur and given it to poor people which conservatives automatically translate into black people in their head which you know is that at least that's how they hope the

medium is working right and play in the grease is among the base. but but actually what's happening is that the obamacare or the medicare advantage programs which are not actually medicare are being gradually defunded to have destroyed well i wouldn't say they're being defunded they're being properly funded might be the better way to put it we medicare advantage plans our health plans that the medicare program contracts with and people can choose to enroll in those or to stay in traditional medicare for a long time we have been overpaying those plans because three hundred seventy or so that's right instead of one hundred percent of expected costs for example so it's been able to attract somewhat healthier rowley's than have been. you know basically getting paid far more than it takes to serve there in raleigh population so one

thing the affordable care act did among many was to roll back how much those plans are getting paid. i don't think anybody has a problem with them being properly paid to care for medicare in releasing choose to go through that plan route instead but being paid one hundred seventeen percent is just ripping off the taxpayer and i'm getting calls from seniors who are saying my medicare advantage program you doctor will is gone from two thousand to five thousand. they say it's because of obamacare. may or may not be true but over time medicare advantage providers are going to get less money and so those plans and and so you know what i had wendell potter on the show last week and he said well just sign up for medicare you know just you know forget about medicare advantage but then you've got this eighty percent twenty percent problem and he said the so by a medicare insurance program you know fill in blanks well it's like a high. one hundred fifty dollars for the average person. why.

why should somebody who you know i mean i think it's forty percent of seniors in america are basically living on their social security so we have people who are living on somewhere between twelve and fourteen thousand dollars a year to begin with in some cases a little less so there's a little more. we're asking them to spend a couple hundred dollars a month on medicare plus another hundred and some odd dollars a month but another gap insurance plan why why is it that somebody who is twenty years old and healthy and we're saying you got to get into the program and they're also living on ten or fifteen thousand dollars a year because they just work hard to donal's or something wise or that they get it free they get subsidized but the person over sixty five doesn't. you're talking about are proper health insurance system at the point that health care law made some really big improvements in the very fragmented in you know irrational way to merican to get their health insurance but it builds on the system that. we have right now and so you have people who qualify for

a program like medicare because of their age or their disability and how much they paid in taxes to support you know medicare how many quarters and other people who get health insurance because they like me work for an employer who provides a and others through might qualify for medicaid because they have low nothing comes that they can get that help. new health care law is filling in a lot of gaps but it's not it hasn't addressed that particular and so we need we need to fix medicare that's the next thing on the agenda well i think you know both sides of the aisle been talking about that in somewhat different ways for a long time very different place when it. the medicare as you know it is based on the one nine hundred sixty five insurance model and that's why there is that there is that twenty percent how insurance and you know people never hand out limit and what they pay out of pocket right. and you know for the people who are coming into medicare and people then there are

a lot of time when it's really time to look at how to update it care and thanks so much for being with us the pleasure of the ship great to see you again. in other news the cost of childcare in america are soaring according to a new report from child care aware of america families paid more for child care at twenty twelve and twenty eleven the cost of child care centers rising by two point seven percent for an infant and two point six percent for a four year old loss of child care are so high that putting two children full time childcare represents the biggest single expense for a family in the northeast the midwest and the southern regions of the u.s. the average cost of childcare are more than the annual median rent in every us state and more than average mortgage payments in nineteen states and the district of columbia shockingly the cost of putting an infant in child care are more than what the average american family spends on food every year and can be higher than already sky high college tuition costs all the cost of childcare are skyrocketing

lawmakers are doing virtually nothing to address the problem low income americans can give federal assistance to help cover the cost of child care but those living in half the u.s. got less support this year than they did last year and that's thanks in large part to sequenced ration which has taken a staggering sixty nine million dollar bite out of a program that funds child care assistance with more americans in debt than ever before having a child is increasingly becoming a financial burden that american families just can't afford call your lawmakers and tell them to do more to reduce the outrageous costs of child care and raising a child in america or even better let's bring back. those unions so that families who want to be a single her household can afford to once again. just .

it's the good the bad of the very very emotive taurus legally the good box tell never london's town was already the first town in the netherlands to ban fracking and now it's become the first town in europe to completely divest from fossil fuel last week the box tell officials announced that they will move the talons money out of more than two hundred oil and gas companies and place it instead of more sustainable industries in december box tell will host a conference regina other minutes polities to follow its lead noting comes to fight in the fossil fuel industry i think it's safe to say that the rest of europe should learn to go dutch the bad senator rand paul as the plagiarism allegations keep mounting in the kentucky senator has started going on the offensive lasting people like m.s.m. b c host rachel maddow with call him out for stealing language from the heritage

foundation in which a pedia war of words took an especially ugly turn on yesterday's edition of a.b.c.'s this week when senator paul said he wished dueling was still legal in kentucky so you could settle this controversy with a nice gun flight check check it out. like i say if you know if dueling were legal in kentucky if they keep it up you know would be a dual challenge but i can't do that because i can hold office of kentucky so what's next in case you didn't catch a senator paul basically said he wants to shoot rachel maddow because she caught him plagiarizing unbelievable and the very very ugly london metropolitan police you documents read last week in a britain. ford has shed new light on why london police detained glenn greenwald's partner david miranda back in august they thought his position of top secret intelligence documents made him a terrorist yes a terrorist in the metropolitan police's opinion miranda was

a threat to public safety because he was going to bring the documents to greenwald who would then publish them in the guardian court documents known as the court's circulation sheets read as follows the disclosure or threat of disclosure is designed to influence a government and it's made for the purpose of promoting a political or ideological cause is their fault therefore falls within the definition of terrorism and as such we request that the subject is examined under schedule c. schedule seven is a reference to the part of the u.k. terrorism act of two thousand. as always mean well it means that the london metropolitan police think that journalism is terrorism and that is very very good. coming up boulder colorado is leading the charge when it comes to making the fossil fuel industry paid to clean up its waste it is the rest of the country listening to find out after the break.

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congress can't make up its mind on a national carbon tax communities across america are taking action right now. to fight back against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced always boulder colorado taking the matter into its own hands because that city be a model for the entire country and drive down a highway anyone anywhere in america and you'll see and feel firsthand the severe lack of funding for america's infrastructure but it's not just republicans who are keeping america stuck in the twentieth century i'll tell you who's really behind our crumbling infrastructure in tonight's daily take. in tonight's green report we're all paying a heavy price for the carbon pollution that's filling our skies and fueling global climate change but that price doesn't just include more extreme weather events and above average temperatures winter driving food and water scarcity to eat up our tax

dollars carbon pollution is having an effect on just about every aspect of our lives so what can be done to combat carbon pollution and save the fate of our planet to a good first step would be to introduce a carbon tax that would force companies to pay for the carbon that they're dumping in our skies all debate in washington over national carbon tax has gone nowhere across the country communities are implementing their own versions of carbon taxes to help protect our environment and our planet one of those communities is bored boulder colorado and joining me now from denver to talk more about boulders efforts is jonathan cohen city of boulder regional sustainability coordinator jonathan wald . hi tom thanks for having me on the show five thanks for joining us how does the carbon tax work there and who does it apply to. well good question so i really appreciated the way you introduced that segment in terms of how communities really are starting to kind of address what we are starting to see is

a paralysis at the federal level and at the state level for that matter so bold. in fact enacted a carbon tax really quite a while ago in two thousand and six we took it to our voters in an attempt to really understand well how can we at the local level have an impact on our local emissions and what does that mean at the global level and the national level the state levels so forth so the carbon tax is a little bit different terms of it to carbon tax in that it was really a way to address the funding needed for the strategies that are laid out in our climate action plan and so many communities course have climate action plans and lays out their strategies on how they're going to reduce their local emissions but they're left in this void of understanding well how do we pay for these things and how do we actually kind of move from abstraction to action and so the carbon tax was generated and voted into place by boulder voters to tax ourselves to create that funding mechanism to really fund those programs so it's

a surcharge on electricity consumption and it's applied to residential commercial and industrial customers here in boulder because your electricity is produced using carbon based fuels well there and is the rub for sure so boulder lies in one of the most fossil fuel intensive areas in of the country so roughly seventy percent of our energy comes from burning coal so we don't have the luxury of say a portland or seattle that has massive amounts of hydroelectric power so where we are really challenged is how do we address this issue on the demand side looking at efficiency measures and how do we address that on the supply side trying to reduce the amount of coal that's being birds in our in the power plants that are that are fueling our electricity needs in boulder and your experience has been what. well now that's a whole other topic so the. the effect has been really tremendous so once the carbon tax went into place it generated it has generated about one point eight million dollars a year what's been extraordinary tom is that we've been able to really turn the

curve so to speak on our image. just on demand side alone so implementing efficiency programs supporting our community in our businesses with incentives in rebates and really pairing that with a regulatory structure that i think is a very important lesson for many communities in this country that we're not going to get there on volunteer actions alone there needs to be some paring with regulations so what we realized in around two thousand and nine as we were in with the carbon tax and looking at the effectiveness of the programs is we're making great progress on the demand side yet we still get the predominant amount of our energy from an investor owned utility and they burn coal and natural gas to generate electricity so unless we do something on the energy supply side we're never going to have the impact on reducing emissions at the level that we need to and where science is telling us we need to be and so it's really started a whole new process in boulder where we're going to continue to fund and have

robust efficiency and demand side programs at the same time we're really taking on our investor owned utility to really create the business model of the future that allows us to have some control over the energy sources that we have and hopefully it's a strong message to the rest of the country colorado has a fair amount of wind and some states are using that quite well iowa texas are both producing about twenty percent of the electricity with wind is there some way to incentivize your and you've got a privately owned utility as opposed to a publicly held one so they're not just going to respond to what's best for the environment or what's what the stock or what the voters want they're going to respond to what stockholders who might be even in other countries want in terms of profits. what are the what are the things that you see that can incentivize them is there a way to make that carbon tax even more specific you know tie it to the amount of coal that they're burning for example so that they have an incentive to move to wind and no longer burn coal. yeah those are some of the solutions that we've

discussed with the utility and the challenge that we have tom and. and i think every community can attest to this is that when you're being served by an entity that is required to really help modularize or service amongst their service territory i mean our investor and utility serves eight states and so when you have one community saying we'd like to do something different we want to perhaps tax ourselves even more or we want something different for our customers it's very hard to work through the regulatory process to kind of create that new nishat suppose you could say so what we have been doing over the years is trying to come up with those win win solutions and we've ended up in a position now where we're actually trying to municipal eyes are electric service from the investor and utility so we can create this business model of the future which is one based on selling electricity as a service rather than a commodity and allowing a community similar to what's going on in areas of europe to be able to do something a little bit different in a regulated state we can't do community choice aggregation here in colorado so as

we start to understand what our energy future is and what our goals are we realize that there may not be as many paths as we once thought there were and by taking control over our own destiny we believe it's going to send a very strong message that we are in fact the customers and not just consumers of a commodity when i lived in portland oregon it was right after the enron meltdown and the local power company had been owned by enron and it was up for sale and the city not only offered the off asking price but offered more than the asking price and the company refused to sell it to the city because they did not want the precedent of a formerly privately owned power company becoming publicly owned. are you in calgary and that's sort of the problem quite a bit quite a bit and understandably from from the utilities perspective i mean we do represent a profit center even though it's not a huge amount in the state but i think it's the precedent that is of concern of

course and we've shown in. the city of boulder to be very innovative to be very bold with policy we're the first to tax ourselves to for the preservation of open space the first mandatory green building codes then this first carbon tax and we've shown that over time we are poised to make another bold move which is if it's not going to happen at the federal level or the state level we in the communities where the innovation occurs where we're going to be on the front lines of the impact of climate change we need to take it in our own hands and make the changes that we need to see and boulder just experienced are our thousand year flood in the early part of september and so what once was thought to be very abstract in terms of well we're not really seen the impact of climate change is really front and center in our community and has just poised our community to take a very active stand on reducing our emissions now is what's going on in boulder representative probably not but if it's a model that can be replicated and if it's

a way to allow other communities to see pieces of the cookbook so to speak to say here's where we need to go collectively then we've been we've been successful we have just a few seconds left and you have other communities who are asking you for advice. a number of them and it's not just us telling them how to do something better or smarter it's the ability to collaborate collaborate in a real time way when we start to see how we collectively can have upward pressure at the state level and hopefully at the federal level to see some some important change that we need jonathan cohen brilliant thanks so much for being with us tonight thanks tom appreciate it. president obama issued an executive order last friday aimed at helping local communities prepare for climate change the order is part of the president's larger climate plan and it will encourage local planners to consider droughts floods and super storms and build

a new infrastructure the president's order also say. add up the council on climate preparedness and resilience which is a task force of local leaders who will help the federal government support communities dealing with climate change will make it easier to increase building standards protect natural storm barriers like wetlands and dunes ensure local communities have access to climate data and build on climate change in place chan change plans already in place for federal agencies all we must do more to prevent further damage to our environment it's important that we're also repaired for the extreme weather the climate change has already created preparing for climate change disasters is a great idea but aggressively addressing climate change itself. is where we really need to go let's hope the president doesn't forget what he told us this past january. we will respond to the threat of climate change knowing that the failure

to do so would betray our children and future generations some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms the path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult but america cannot resist this transition we must lead. we cannot see that to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries we must claim it's promise. that's. coming up did you hit a pothole on your way into work this morning and you've been out all laid flight lately is your house losing power every time is a huge gust of wind if you answer yes to any of those questions and you can thank america's super rich for your troubles to tell you why in tonight's military.

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. you. crazy a word semitic sexy tell looking for something with a little chutzpah to give to your favorite jewish lady this hanukkah and look for no further than the rampant rabbi the newest dildo from british comedian sheds simmo views line of erotic toilets rampant rabbis made a latex free cell with a. and as you can see from this picture is shaped exactly like a jewish with his teacher gordon's moby's website the so-called chosen dildo is a religious experience that comes with sixty nine commandments but not everyone is so excited by the prospect of some kosher self-love body that is really newspaper audits the british sex store and summers is suing to block the trademark of the

rampant rabbi is named sounds too much like the name of anne summers is own rampant rabbit dildos you know come to think of it the rampant rabbis designers should also be sued because they advertise and as far as i can tell they build those definitely uncircumcised. so sometimes you know what you know and sometimes you know what you don't know and sometimes is the firesign theater says everything you know is wrong and go with it you're wrong if you want me or your right. to say that your view of my life everything you know is wrong most parents take their children to the doctor's office in the first sign of a serious illness but when a child like when the child is running a fever has a stomach bug but there are some parents in america who believe the modern medicine is not the answer and the powers of prayer and faith alone can heal their sick children so if you think a visit to the doctor's office is par for the course when

a child is sick and everything you know is wrong joining me now is cameron stuff author of in the name of god the true story of the fight to save children from faith healing homicide cameron welcome. thank you let's start with the title of your book what is faith healing homicide. by i think it's the dirtiest darkest secret of american fundamentalism and what it means is killing people through medical neglect it's usually the most vulnerable people it's it's kids it's women giving birth and it's also the elderly people and if it's not their choice it's forced on how big a problem is this. it's huge it's been going on for ever been going on since the pilgrims it's largely legal there are probably about one hundred radical faith healing churches in america thousand throughout the world estimated five american kids die every month even more fatalities among adults even more people are crippled disfigured blinded year after year and mostly just stays hip

hop hot of these churches i think in a way with us they're very secretive they avoid things like autopsies they don't have public symmetries they report infant deaths is still bears sometimes they literally bury their kids in the backyard and they lie their heads off is not against the law. no nixon passed laws that said you can commit child abuse elder abuse bows of abuse as long as you're praying while you do it it sounds bizarre and that's the absolute truth as long as you're watching praying praying for a some religious c.e.o. a religious shield against child abuse if you have a child while praying it's legal that's right because it's a religious punishment what is a bizarre but it's true what is the followers of christ church and how are they at

the forefront of this problem that's the deadliest church in america it's right here just outside of portland where i live in oh in oregon city. about half of the graves in their symmetry are kids graves there fatality rate among kids is twenty six times the norm fatality rate a mom skipping home births is nine hundred times the norm in oregon city a woman died from an infection that nobody's died from since one thousand nine hundred. well why are these people so against modern medicine i mean makes them feel important makes them feel superior they think they alone are going to go to heaven everybody else is going to go to hell and they have to have some rationale for why they're better and what they came up with four hundred years ago is we hardly ever get sick because god loves us most would we do get sick we ask god to fix it and he does it because god loves us them most they actually think it's

dangerous to go to a doctor because that shows a lack of faith but doesn't doesn't a death cause them to question that doesn't that break up their religion you'd think but when their kids die they think they made the ultimate sacrifice and that they're not only better than ever but safer then that's that's absolutely absolutely incredible cameron style thanks so much for being with us my pleasure thank you now everything you know about faith healing is right. america's falling apart and our nation's super rich are to blame there was once a time in america when the super rich needed you and me and working class americans

to be successful they needed us. to build their roads to patronize their businesses to help build their communications infrastructure to help transport them where they needed us as their customers they needed us for their overall success the super rich rode very often the same trains as us and very often flew the same planes as us they went to our hospitals learned our schools occasionally and their success depended directly on us and on the wellbeing of the nation and they knew it. but times have changed and the super rich of the twenty first century no longer think that you and i are needed by them for their continued success and in some ways they're right and as a consequence they're giving up on america period. as paul bouquet brilliantly points out over at alter net as they accumulate more and more wealth the very rich have less need for society at the same time they've convinced themselves that they

made it on their own and that contributed to societal needs is unfair to them there is ample evidence that the small group of takers is giving up on the country that made it possible for them to build huge fortunes goes on to say that the rich have always needed the middle class to work in their factories and buy their products with globalization though this is no longer true they don't need our infrastructure for their yachts and helicopters and submarines they pay for private schools for their kids private security for their homes they have private emergency rooms to avoid the health care hassle all they need is an assortment of servants who might be guest workers coming to america in age to be visas willing to work for less than the middle class americans could afford. unfortunately these millionaires and billionaires who have given up on america and on the working class are can get in control of the political process in this country they have bought and paid for largely republicans think is it into the into thinking that the success of working

class americans no longer matters for the future of this nation as a result these republican politicians are no longer investing in things that have traditionally made america and the working class successful say goodbye to dwight eisenhower's america take america's infrastructure for example or our lack thereof . chord in american society of civil engineers annual report card on america's infrastructure. mess with an overall grade of a d. plus our roads are falling apart our transportation systems are in turmoil our energy electrical systems are stuck back in the one thousand nine hundred new graph released by investment research firm dca shows why non-defense related infrastructure spending was around three hundred twenty five billion dollars. as per year when george w. bush stepped foot inside the white house today it's around two hundred thirty five billion dollars a year a ninety billion dollars a year drop in funding from when bush took office it's like this republicans backed

by america's super rich have taken this is the money for our schools our hospitals our homes they've taken about a third of those total money right through a bunch of this money that we from our infrastructure that we rely on to survive this is what it and they gave it to the billionaires the banks the oil tycoons. a whole bunch of it so there's only just a little bit left the same as republicans have repeatedly refused to fund comprehensive in for infrastructure spending all in the name of austerity which is a fancy way of saying move the money over here. but cutting funding by cutting taxes on rich people but cutting funding to the nation's infrastructure is not the right way to address america's debt or spending problems and it certainly isn't the right way to rebuild this nation. as as cardia as cardiff garcia

over the financial times points out it's also likely that much of the investment that has been foregone in the name of fiscal consolidation will have to be made eventually anyways only will be made when rates are higher exacerbating the long term fiscal outlook rather than proving it and its think progress points continued underfunding in this arena over the coming years because to build a business is a trillion dollars in lost sales and cost the economy three and a half million jobs the society of civil engineers says it'll take a staggering three point six trillion dollar investment by two thousand and twenty four hundred fifty billion dollars a year to bring the american infrastructure into the twenty first century where we already are and to avoid risking a complete infrastructure collapse. with the super rich don't care about how much funding is needed to save this country long as they have their private schools the private hospitals or private airports the private places the super rich in this

country are bleeding working class americans dry while destroying the infrastructure of the nation that has done so much for their success. no matter what jamie diamond or charles koch or shelly adelson will tell you america's wealthy elite did not make their fortunes on their own without a strong economy and infrastructure america's millionaires and billionaires would not be where they are today it's that simple. so what can we do right now to rebuild america's infrastructure and give a boost to the american economy. first it's time to end globalization we need to be protecting american jobs instead of letting the super rich. ship them overseas and build factories and third world countries but more importantly we need to roll back the reagan tax cuts and make sure that america's wealthy elite are paying their fair share to support our economy and rebuild our infrastructure right now the burden for rebuilding america is on the backs of working class americans well plus

the fact that we basically haven't done it since reagan and that's just wrong it's ridiculous the working class americans struggling to survive day to day or pay more in taxes than billionaire banks toure's you know oil tycoon has a lot has changed in america over the past hundred years or so but one thing remains the same the success of the super rich still depends on the success of you and me least for the moment we still need their roads they still need us to buy things from their businesses to build their communications they still need us to participate in the transportation our infrastructure may be crumbling but there's still time to get america back on the road to success we're all in this together. and that's the way it is tonight monday that we're fourth two thousand and thirteen and don't forget democracy begins when you get out there get active teg your.

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i'm the president and i think a society. and big corporation kind of continue to consume consume consume and the bankers try to get all that money all about money and i was actually that for a politician writing the laws and regulations that. are coming out. there is just too much. of

a. bad. coming up on our t.v. in the nation's capital efforts are being made to make changes to expanding u.s. surveillance and protect your online privacy but the new oversight board met today to discuss possible changes to the patriot act as well as to pfizer but does this board actually have the power to change n.s.a. policy details on that ahead. and a german news magazine has published a manifesto written by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden the former contractor is pleading for clemency from the u.s. government but white house officials have gone off that the request more on that coming up. and in iran thousands gathered outside the former u.s. embassy the anti-american protest marks the anniversary of the nine hundred seventy nine seizure of that former embassy into the.